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Course Updated: November 15, 2015

Piano Runs & Fills 3: Play Jazzy Chromatic Chords to Song Endings

Do you want your piano playing to sound more like a professional?

Many beginners just end their song in a boring way. When they get to the end of the song, they just play a long tone in the empty measure. They do not know what to do with the long measure. Often times, the song sounds very abrupt when they come to an ending.

How would you like to create a dreamy ending so that your audience can sit back to flavor the ending of your performance?

Here's the Secret: One way to create a dreamy ending is to use a half-step chromatic chord movement to creating a mesmerizing bassline leading the audience one step at a time to the home chord. These chords will provide the step-wise movement to lead to the final endings of songs.

In this course, I will show you step by step on the keyboard, so that you know exactly how to create these jazzy chords movement that many people love to listen to.

1. For the beginners, we will begin with the triad chords: Em Ebdim Dm C

Many beginners just end their song in a boring way. When they get to the end of the song, they just play a long tone in the empty measure. They do not know what to do with the long measure. Often times, the song sounds very abrupt when they come to an ending.

How would you like to create a dreamy ending so that your audience can sit back to flavor the ending of your performance?

Here's the Secret: One way to create a dreamy ending is create contrasting rolling and dancing sounds at the end of the song. You want your audience to sit back to flavor your performance right to the end. You are going to take them up to a climax with the rolling waves going up. And just as when they think you are ending the song, you are going to start dancing with your fingers creating a waterfall dance coming down.

Do you often wonder what chord progressions musicians use when they perform at the beginning of their song?

Many musicians love to play the 1625 Chord progression for the introduction of their songs. They create a dreamy atmosphere for the audience to flavor as they listen to the performance.

Many piano players are frustrated when it comes to playing runs, especially when they see that there are lots of notes going up or coming down. They will be forever counting where the notes are and how to keep up with the rhythm?

Learn how to write and play simple chord progressions with excitement and confidence

This course is all about beginner chord progressions and simple chord-based songwriting on the piano! By teaching you the fundamentals and giving you one simple step at a time, you'll be able to write and play your own simple piano songs that you're proud of! Imagine what it will feel like to be able to sit down and compose a new song right out of thin air.

The entire course is about two hours of video, but it's split up into easy-to-digest sections. If you're a quick learner, you can get through this course as quickly as an afternoon!

I give you the tools to succeed starting with the INTRO TO CHORDS all the way to PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: CHORDS/RHYTHM/TIME SIGNATURE. And if you EVER get stuck, I'm excited to help you get back on track.

I have a system that I would love to show you, that will make it easy to come to the piano with confidence and excitement, and to be able to make up your own chord progressions and simple songs from scratch, using chords that sound good every time!

Dreamy Piano music is a quiet, elegant music that uses chords & harmony from jazz and classical music. This is the kind of music that is very relaxing and soothing for meditation or dining with family and beloved friends.

It’s the choice of chords that you choose to create the nostalgic atmosphere with sweet sounds.

When these chords are put together, it has a magical feel that is timeless and elegantly graceful. This kind of music brings hope and pleasure to our lives. After playing such music, one’s spirit feels lifted up in the journey. The musical path is one of delight and joy.

Silver Bells is a very special Christmas Song. Even though the melody of Silver Bells is very plain. If you take a look at the music score of Silver Bells, you will be able to pick up some very unique features in this song.

One of the unique feature of the song is the ‘accidental’ note that occurs in 2 places in Section A. Think of the accidental note as a ‘flat’ rather than a ‘sharp’.

Once you think of that note as a ‘flat’, you will be able to create a very smooth chromatic chord movement in that section to highlight the unique feature of this song. And when you can figure out the great chromatic movement chord progression, you can put it into the Turn Around and in the Ending of the Song.

Another very Unique Feature of the song is that there are many empty measures in Section B. Usually in empty measures, we can put in all kinds of runs and fills.

For "Silver Bells”, I refrain from putting in just any kind of runs and fills. We can certainly fill up those empty measures with ballad style of playing, and many of the runs and fills I presented to you in White Christmas.

Silver Bells with its repeated melodic notes give us many opportunities to do Dreamy Echoes in the empty measures. When we hear bells, we want to hear echoes. I will demonstrate 8 Different kinds of dreamy echoes for you to learn how you too can create your own dreamy echoes. You need to learn some improvisational skills.

Rosa has an unique was of teaching, She structure the course in a way, it let us figure out things first before giving us answers, not spoon feeding us. No dry boring lesson , I feel I'm being taught by how & why it 'works'... and not traditionally rigid like many other course out there. Thumbs up & keep up the good work.

It is important for all musicians, whether you play guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, harmonica, or any musical instruments to develop an intimate knowledge of the Circle of 5ths. The Circle of 5ths is a visual picture that tells us the relations between keys, scales, chords, chord progressions, tritones, tritone chord substitutions, pentatonic scales, blues scales, 7 modes of music, etc.

The Tritone chord substitution is one of the most commonly used chord substitutions in jazz. By using tritone chord substitution, you often get a beautiful chromatic bass line in the song and especially in turn arounds.

When it comes to more advanced music theory, students get confused and give up in their struggle to advance in their musicianship.

Here's the secret: Learn to use the Moving Circle of 5ths Dynamically! When you know how to move the circle around to understand Tritones and how the interval is created in the Dominant 7 chords, you will understand why professional musicians do such smooth voicing because they know how to concentrate on the 3rd & 7th tones easily.

In this Circle of 5ths Level 2 course, I will show you how to use the Circle to do Tritone Chord substitutions with Dominant 7 Chords and Minor 7 Chords. In this way, you will have many more options in your music compositions other than the normal Diatonic Chord Progression & Secondary Dominants that you learned in Circle of 5ths Level 1 Course.

When you do Tritone Chord Substitutions, you begin to learn advance music harmonic sounds, and the importance of doing smooth voicing, chromatic bass line chord movement in turn arounds that audience loves to listen to.

In this course, I will also show you when Tritone Chord Substitutions work and when they don't work. There are some rules you need to follow so that you create beautiful harmonic sounds in your piece of music, whether reharmonizing a song or in the writing of your own songs.

You will be doing a lot of assignments so that you learn to find the answer yourself. What you discover sticks with you much more than what you are told. It is easy for me to lay out all the answers and theory for you. What is unique in the course is that I will coach you along to help you think and discover the answers for yourself in a creative way.

Start playing piano within less than a month, using the theory of this course, and over 200 free song practice videos!

This course by PGN Piano is offering an a to z introduction to playing piano for those who have never played before, and those who are playing but want to learn more about piano music theory.

In this course you are going to learn about the names of the keys, the most important scales, chords, intervals and the circle of fifth's! You are also going to learn to play chord songs, and finally how to play any pop song you want, in less than ten minutes, or if you really work on it, in your first try!

If you are a beginner, this course will keep you busy for at least a month, but possibly longer, as it will keep challenging you to learn more, and transition from theory to practice.

You should take this course, because it will get you of to a flying start on your piano journey!

Mark

PGN Piano

What are the requirements?

You don't need to know anything!

You don't necessarily need to have a piano, but it would make things a lot easier for you!

You need to allow yourself to practice a couple of times per week, let's say minimum 2, for 1 month to get the entire course down. You will then need to practice on section 9 to be able to play all songs you want within 1 try. (this depends on your skill level, for people who've played piano before you might be able to do this in as little as 1 month).

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 58 lectures and 3 hours of content!

Name all keys on the piano, as well as the 3 most important scales, and understand the difference between whole and half tones!

Use intervals, chords and the circle of fifths to understand how songs are being built up, and to learn how to play them quicker!

Use knowledge gathered in the course to learn how to play over 200 songs in no time at all, and how to adapt these songs to your own liking!

Play all major and minor chords, and know how to built over 100 chords based on chord knowledge gathered in section 7 of this course. They will also be able to play over 100 chords and the matching octaves!

Use all of the knowledge gathered in the entire course to work on playing chord songs, and eventually even play songs for the first time, in one try, without mistakes!

What is the target audience?

This Piano Course is for those of you who have never played piano before, as well as for those of you who have been playing for quite some time but want to learn more theoretical aspects of playing piano, like scales, intervals and how to play and name chords and keys, as well as learning great tips and tricks to improve current skill, and learn to play songs in just 1 try!

If you just want to learn how to play any pop song in 1 try, and you already know all chords, scales and intervals, and know how to apply them when playing your songs this course is not for you, you are better of getting my separate course: How To Play (nearly) Any Pop Song in 1 Try

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